With all your good intensions of burdening your fellow humans with less email, and spending less of your valuable time on automated emails – ever wonder how you’re really doing? Well I did, and here’s my numbers: I dealt with 7,479 emails this year!

GTD is simple, yet often complicated to explain to newcomers and hard to practice. I usually find, that when explaining GTD to people – I always start with Inbox Zero – since Inbox Zero was the real eyeopener that changed my (work) life and really opened my eyes to all the benefits of Getting Things Done. But why is Inbox Zero such a good way into GTD? Well read on…